The 4 Most Logical & Notable Benefits Of Natural Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding, the name in itself paints a picture of huge men with muscles popping out of every possible inch of their body. What Arnold Schwarzenegger brought to the limelight, is now a global sport to be reckoned with.

The textbook definition of bodybuilding says, "a sport involving strenuous physical exercise in order to strengthen and enlarge the muscles of the body." Basically, if you train to enlarge and strengthen your muscles, you are bodybuilding.

When Done Naturally, These Are Some Outstanding Benefits:

1. Improved Strength

As you are engaging in a strenuous physical activity, it is a stimulus to your muscles. Your muscles undergo trauma and show an adaptive response to the stimulus. When properly nourished, they grow to be able to handle the increased strength demands of your body. This process makes you stronger. And who would not want to be stronger?

2. Look Better

Lifting weights coupled with proper nutrition can help you get in shape and have a lean physique that demands respect and admiration. I always tell my clients that there are two types of people, one who will just run and look like an aged man when they lose some weight and another who has a spectacular physique after losing some fat.

If you want to be the latter, bodybuilding is for you.

3. Improved Ageing

The one rule of having muscle tissue- use it or lose it. And as you age, if you are not using it, your body starts degenerating this muscle tissue and favours more of fat accumulation for pure survival mechanism.

If you want to look good in your 40s and 50s and be strong then, you will have to work in your 20s and 30s and keep that work ethic in your 40s, 50s and even 60s.

Along with maintaining your muscle mass, lifting weights has also shown to improve bone mineral density and shown favourable benefits of non-degenerative effects of your bone that usually come with age.

4. Higher Quality Of Life

Combine the above three and that automatically adds up to a better quality of life. You look better, you have better strength, your bone and joint health are good, you do not need a walking stick when you age.

Who would say no to such benefits?

And these are the long-term ones. Even in the short term, you will be strong and you will look and feel better.

So, back to our question, is bodybuilding healthy? If you are abusing drugs just to achieve a certain look and step on the stage, it is not really healthy. But if you are looking at it as a sport and plan on taking steps naturally, then it is one of the best things out there.

Pratik Thakkar is the co-founder and director of GetSetGo Fitness, an online fitness company. He is regarded as someone who will make it easy for you to understand the process by putting things in the right context and providing science-based recommendations for natural bodybuilding.

You can reach out to him at pratik@getsetgo.fitness and follow him on Instagram and join his FREE Facebook Fitness group.